Labour says ‘hold my beer.’
Labour has doubled down by releasing a second advert attacking Rishi Sunak over crime – despite provoking a huge backlash by claiming the PM doesn’t think adults who sexually assault children should be locked up.
The latest graphic, shared on the party’s Twitter account, says: “Do you think an adult convicted of possessing a gun with intent to harm should go to prison? Rishi Sunak doesn’t.”
The advert said that under the Tories, 937 people convicted of this crime had been spared jail.
Quite apart from negative campaigning being a terrible thing to do at the best of times, this one is logically flawed. That people were spared jail does not mean that Sunak believes that people shouldn’t be jailed for a particular crime. And that’s before we get all tu quoque here.
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell fumed: “This is not the sort of politics a Labour Party, confident of its own values and preparing to govern, should be engaged in.
“I say to the people who have taken the decision to publish this ad, please withdraw it. We, the Labour Party, are better than this.”
It’s not often you will find me agreeing with McDonnell, but he is right on this one.
Yes, I deplore the Tories’ record on crime, but I deplore Labour’s even more. I despise the Tories with every fibre of my being, but I despise Labour even more. Frankly, if I was wavering between these two, the ad campaign would tip me towards the Tories. As it is, ‘none of the above’ is my preference, unless Reform are standing, in which case, I’ll give them a punt.
Labour, still arseholes after all these years.
Guido Fawkes has an interesting take on the reality of this one, in that the sentencing rules that applies are from 2012, some years before Rishi Sunak became an MP (in 2015).
More interestingly, Sir Keir Starmer actually sat on the sentencing council that decided the current terms, so it would be more accurate to lay this charge at the Labour Leader than the Tory One.
https://order-order.com/2023/04/07/new-keir-starmer-sat-on-the-sentencing-council-that-determined-guidelines-for-sexual-assault-of-children/
Too many lawyers in Parliament, they all believe in the rights of criminals over victims except when they need a soundbite. Labour trying to be the party of law and order is absolutely laughable though. Unless i’m proved wrong all of the grooming gangs were in Labour boroughs.
Not quite true. Peterborough and Aylesbury were (and still are) Tory Councils but with substantial numbers of invaders in their local rural area.
The rest were Labour, Labour in coalition or NOC.
This is really worrying, it is highly likely that Labour will get in next time, if only by a small majority. What we need to hear is what they are going to do, not cheap jibes about the opposition. Think the Tories tried this with the Labour Party when they ran out of steam and ideas. There were posters with Tony Blair with devil eyes. The Labour Party should be brimming with ideas, if they don’t have any ideas speak to the workforce in this country and find out what we want.
What I want is a party that promises to repeal all the insane EU derived laws, then do nothing and leave me alone. I’d like Kier Starmer to do the decent thing with a whisky and a loaded revolver, thereby making the world a better place.
I think you’ll find that, most of the time, EU Law was reasonable. The continental countries had a flexible attitude to them. It isn’t that I think we’d be better off governing ourselves but the EU was reasonable.
Certainly they did – and still do. However, the people making the laws are unelected and unaccountable and are passing unnecessary laws.
They’re more democratic than the House of Lords. As I said, I voted Leave. The Commission – those who pass the laws – is elected by the MEPs.
They are not more democratic than the lords. The commission is selected, just like the lords. The lords, however, do not make legislation, they can put forward amendments that can still be overridden by the commons. In the EU, the parliament puts forward amendment, so the elected house is not a true legislature.
Nope. The commission is selected from a list of candidates. The only one who is elected by the MEPs is the president of the commission. They vet the others, but they do not elect them. No one elects them. The approval process is not an election and it is certainly not remotely democratic.
I think that the best that can be hoped for is that Labour win and then the electorate realise that the have just voted in the same bunch of public school educated bunch of entitled wankers as the other lot. PPE degrees. Time served SPADs. Expenses wanglers. Directorships? Yes please. I could go on. And on.
Then again, when the election begins in earnest the Tories will be plastering the land with pictures of Sir Keir Starmer kneeling for the BLM, effectively letting Jimmy Saville off the hook, showing that he cannot say what a woman is (never mind what 99% of women are), etc.
Keir Starmer is a blithering idiot and the best thing he could do for Labour’s election chances is to do a John Smith.